Quote

He [Steve Jobs] had come from the surplus electronics parts world.So he came from that world, and he said let's sell PC boards for $40. We'll build them for $20 and sell them for $40.

Steve Wozniak

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Steve Wozniak
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: August 11
Businessperson
Computer Scientist
Inventor
Programmer
Teacher
San Jose
California
Woz
Stephen Wozniak
Stephen Gary Wozniak
Stephan Gary Wozniak
The Woz
Jobs
Surplus
Come
Steve
World
Boards
Sell
Sells
Parts
Build
Came
Electronics

More quotes by Steve Wozniak

Image
I wanted to be a fifth grade teacher because my teacher was so important to me and was giving me the education that was going to take me through life and through this world.
Steve Wozniak
Image
It's a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it.
Steve Wozniak
Image
I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.
Steve Wozniak
Image
I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly
Steve Wozniak
Image
When we first started with Apple computers, it was my dream that everyone would learn to program, and that was how they'd use their computer.
Steve Wozniak
Image
I think that the anti-Microsoft sentiment is simply due to their having been so successful selling a lot of crap.
Steve Wozniak
Image
I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.
Steve Wozniak
Image
To give of yourself is much more important than giving a gift you can buy.
Steve Wozniak
Image
The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people you choose any name you want.
Steve Wozniak
Image
It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.
Steve Wozniak
Image
You should stay closely connected to the technology when you start your company.
Steve Wozniak
Image
If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny
Steve Wozniak
Image
I just was non-political and didn't see myself as a person who could push people around, make their decision, you know, and tell them how lousy their work was.
Steve Wozniak
Image
For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.
Steve Wozniak
Image
I've never really been associated with the hackers very much. I am sympathetic to them. I understand how their mind works. It's like a child that is born and wants to explore every little - open up every little drawer there is and find out how the world works.
Steve Wozniak
Image
Young children were always so important to me. Adults should treat children with more respect. We should put more monies in our schools. I grew up on that side of the coin.
Steve Wozniak
Image
My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
Steve Wozniak
Image
You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.
Steve Wozniak
Image
I really believe I know why my designs were better than any other human being, but I don't want to take credit for starting Apple, for turning the world around or anything like that.
Steve Wozniak
Image
I am the person I want to be. I got to teach and had some of the greatest times in my life learning that I had some teaching skills and doing some incredible things teaching 200 hours of computers a year to fifth graders, making them experts at certain things.
Steve Wozniak